The Enlightened Sales Manager Episode 5: Objections vs Condition
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Most objection handling training treats every piece of pushback the same way: memorise a rebuttal, deploy it, move on. Greg pulls that apart at the root. He argues that reps and managers alike routinely confuse two entirely different things. An objection is an excuse, something negotiable, often a knee-jerk reaction to price, confusion or pace. A condition is a genuine, valid reason someone cannot buy from you right now, and no amount of rebuttal skill will overcome it. Confuse the two and you either fight battles you were never going to win, or walk away from ones you could have closed.

From there, Greg sets out the discipline behind good objection handling: a five-step sequence to work through before ever reaching for a rebuttal, and a hierarchy of three ways to handle any objection, in order of preference. Build the answer into the presentation before it ever comes up, ignore or deflect the minor ones, and treat a live rebuttal as the last resort rather than the first instinct.
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